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Perspective and multi-sectoral effects Karl Claxton, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. www.york.ac.uk/inst/che All effects of social value should count Whats the problem? Costs and benefits fall on different sectors


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Perspective and multi-sectoral effects

Karl Claxton, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. www.york.ac.uk/inst/che

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What’s the problem?

  • Costs and benefits fall on different sectors
  • Budget set by a socially legitimate higher authority
  • No consensus on how trade off

– Health, consumption and other social arguments – No complete, legitimate and explicit SWF

  • Even if willing to impose a SWF

– Non marginal effects – Displaced wider effects – Dynamic effects – Social consensus and other social objectives

All effects of social value should count

  • Multi sector effects and compensation tests
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Conceptual framework

  • Two sectors

– Budget constrained Health system – Rest of the economy

  • Impacts on the health care system

– Health gained – Costs falling on the health care system – Health forgone

  • Wider impacts

– Costs falling on patients carers – External effects on the wider economy – Net consumption costs/benefits

  • Social values

– Cost effectiveness threshold (how much health give up within HCS) – How much (individual) consumption willing to give up to improve their health h 

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Questions of fact and questions of value?

  • When costs displace health (∆ch)
  • When costs displace consumption (∆cc)

Fact : k = how much health displaced by increased HCS costs? Value: v = how much consumption should we give up for health?

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Possible Policy Net health benefit ICER

  • A. Ignore effects (NICE 2008)
  • B. Costs on the constraint
  • C. Ignore the constraint
  • D. Marginal rule

(formalisation of previous NICE

policy?)

Effects outside health - spectrum of policies

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Biases of policies (marginal changes)

  • Bias in different directions depending on context
  • Incentive for technologies to have positive health care costs

– Positive bias due to non marginal change – Policy D may no longer be the best (A when benefits, B when costs)

  • A. Ignore wider costs
  • B. Costs on budget
  • C. Ignore constraint

Type of Technology Bias Decision Bias Decision Bias Decision More effective Net consumption costs Positive costs (NHS) + FP

  • FN

+ FP Cost saving (NHS) + FP

  • FN
  • FN

Net consumption benefits Positive costs (NHS)

  • FN

+ FP + FP Cost saving (NHS)

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+ D

  • D

Less effective Net consumption costs Positive costs (NHS) + D

  • D

+ D Cost saving (NHS) + FP

  • FN
  • FN

Net consumption benefits Positive costs (NHS)

  • FN

+ FP + FP Cost saving (NHS)

  • FN

+ FP

  • FN
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Implications for policy

  • Questions of value

– Formal prescription

  • Requires specification of a complete SWF
  • v is the measure of social welfare and presupposes a complete SWF
  • k is simply an inefficient nuisance preventing welfare maximisation

– Deliberative approach

  • Trade-offs still need to be made
  • k is an expression of social value of collective health care
  • v is how much of their consumption individuals are willing to give up to

improve their own health

  • So good reasons why k ≠ v
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Implications for policy

  • Questions of fact

– Cost-effectiveness threshold – Is a change non marginal?

  • Impact relative to budget (single and a series of decisions)
  • How does k change with budget impact?

– Consumption value of health

  • Requires social and scientific value judgements

– Net consumption benefits

  • Cost of care not borne by NHS
  • Effects on wider economy (external to patient and carers)
  • QALYs include consumption effects?
  • Measurement and valuation requires social and scientific value judgements
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Other critical considerations

  • Displaced external effects

– Compare to external benefits forgone – Danger of doubly false positive decisions – Improved heath on average offers benefits to the wider economy – On average a HCS perspective is sufficient! – Is a proper assessment of exceptions possible?

  • Dynamic effects

– Price to appropriate any net consumption benefits

  • External benefits become internal costs

– Investment Incentives (technologies, disease and populations)

  • Impact relative to budget (single and a series of decisions)

– Spend less of on health care more on payment of rent (reduce health)

  • Social consensus

– Potential conflict and long run credibility – Static and dynamic conflicts with social policies and NHS principles

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Benefits and costs on multiple sectors?

  • Multiple sectors

– Health (H) and Education (E) – choose proportion (x) of population i that receives intervention j within programme k – Each jk impact on outcomes and costs in each sector

  • Need a SWF

– Arguments H and E – Weights

  • Welfarist CBA

– Compensation (WTP) – Not shadow price costs

  • Problems for CEA and CBA

– Full information – Estimates of respective thresholds

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k J j ijk k k ijk E K k J j I i ijk E ijk H K k J j I i ijk H ijk k k ijk K k J j I i ijk E ijk H ijk k k ijk K k J j I i ijk ijk ijk

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What can we know?

  • How much does it cost to produce health or education outputs

– Estimate the shadow prices, i.e., sector specific thresholds

  • Specify a complete SWF?

– Value health and education output in terms of consumption – Account for the constraints in project selection

  • Complete and legitimate SWF not possible?

– Allocation of resource though legitimate social process reveals something about a latent welfare function – Interpret shadow prices as revealed but partial expression of social value

  • Common numeraire(s)

– Sector specific output – Sector specific resources – Private consumption (individual preferences)

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Health Education Decision Compensation 1 ∆NBH >0 ∆NBE >0 ∆NBH +∆NBE >0 Accept Non required 2 ∆NBH >0 ∆NBE <0 .. .. 0 - ∆NBE from H to E 3 ∆NBH <0 ∆NBE >0 .. .. 0 - ∆NBH from E to H 4 ∆NBH <0 ∆NBE <0 ∆NBH +∆NBE <0 Reject Non possible 5 ∆NBH >0 ∆NBE <0 .. .. H cant compensate E 6 ∆NBH <0 ∆NBE >0 .. .. E cant compensate H

A simple compensation test?

  • Sector specific effects at values implied by resource allocation
  • Pay compensation for each project?
  • Some accounting to inform next round of public expenditure decisions

A multi sectoral perspective

Jamie's school dinners Ritalin for ADHD Sector Net benefit Outputs Resources Consumption Health ∆NBH ∆H - ∆CH /kH ∆H.kH. - ∆CH vH(∆H - ∆CH /kH) Education ∆NBE ∆E - ∆CE /kE ∆E.kE. - ∆CE vE(∆E - ∆CE /kE)